Waiting for Faria, who returned to me, was just a little awkwardness and an indescribable embarrassment, and she, for a while, did not utter a word. For a few seconds before I got out of the blank of thought, I just had to look at my face that was stiff and could neither smile nor smile like a troubled grandfather.

So, not so, but shortly after returning from a thought pause, she rose from her chair, walked up to the entrance and exit with that momentum, and glanced at Alexei.

"It is rare that the Acting Chancellor of the Mountain Protection Conference should visit the Battle Palace without using it."

"I thought you used it."

"Huh?"

"I also asked Lord Kurt to follow me, and the goddess of war understood me."

"Liar......"

"This time, it's nothing but lies."

Yes, I guess what Alexei has been emphasizing refers to hands-on security training.

Faria found herself stunned and wondered how truthful she was. Naturally, the story of Alexei dropping in for use and being followed by Kurt Talisma, the Seven Great Heavenly Samurai, who is overseeing the security of the Battle Palace this week, is not a lie or anything. Alexei was Faria's grandfather, in a cheerful relationship, but on the other hand he was a tougher figure than anyone else for etiquette and rules. There's no way such a person would ignore the code with any exceptions.

The Battle Palace is also open to citizens. No one could enter or leave freely, and children are routinely running around the premises. But that is part of the story of the Battle Palace, where security is also strictly consolidated in the deepest part, it is forbidden to enter without permission among the gods of war or the office of Pharia, etc. That's the same even if you're acting chairman of the Mountain Protection Conference. Members of the Mountain Protection Council, who are rather in a position to comply with the law, manage the law and enforce the law, had to attach more importance to that point than to the general public.

This is not the case, for example, when Alexei, acting as Speaker, acts without omitting his position.

In that sense, the security training disturbance ahead is noteworthy, that you can see how corrupt he was for Faria.

I could understand that, too, because, after all, he made time for me.

It was only because he had time to stop his legs, breathe, and review his surroundings that Falia was able to think of more care than his grandfather's heart, and he remembered the natural reasoning that he had a lot of help but his grandfather and he was there.

That's why Faria can't help but train herself as a goddess of day and night wars to respond to those thoughts, but it's not a good thing that she became obsessed with paperwork for that reason and didn't even hear the call from Kurt or responded in the sky above. It would have been a huge problem if it had been such an important matter as to determine the fate of Lyohan, although it would have been good because it was Alexei's visit.

Most importantly, Kurt would have asked Faria again and again. He is oligarchy, but in some cases eloquent. In the first place, there can't be such an important matter that Kurt just takes over.

"... the reputation of the goddess of war has grown and become enthusiastic about her work ever since she finished her rest seems true"

"Ahhh... haha..."

Faria had nothing but to cloud her tea with a loving laugh at a word of her grandfather that could be taken both sarcasm and care.

"The hero, along with the team of Lord Asura, was headed for the search for the Milius."

I drank the tea that Alexei poured out of my mouth. Hot air still drifts through the chilly room, flowing into the wind and disappearing.

I'm transferring the location to the reception room. It was also in a section where the general public was forbidden to enter, and it was a good place to have a discussion.

In the reception room, there are only two: Faria and Alexei. Neither was the Guardian Peak Samurai in the immediate vicinity of the reception room. Not to listen to the conversation. The Battle Palace has no doors because it improves ventilation in various ways. For this reason, it was not suitable for secrecy or covert discussions, and in such cases it was necessary to move to another building to do so. Alexei dared to stick to the discussion at the Battle Palace by saying that there was nothing wrong with being asked.

"Yes, Lord Setsuna, there is no more reason to refuse than the immediate offer of cooperation. And Miliu is a former subordinate and a valued companion to Lord Setsuna. I also understand Lord Setsuna's desire to embark on a search."

"Dear Faria,"

Alexei has told us with calm, but elusive force. I think I got a glimpse of the nature of the person who has reigned as your opinion number at the Mountain Protection Conference for years.

"Lord Miliu was a former colleague to Master Faria. Looking at you two since you came back to Lyohan, you were like sisters."

"Right. In fact, if I were free to move, I would have just popped up and taken part in a search mission. But that won't happen. I am the goddess of war."

Falia also assured me that she had lost. The fact that she has been a goddess of war for over two years gives her confidence.

"My role is to rule Lyohan as a goddess of war. To rule and stabilize Lyohan, so that the Milius may return whenever they want. We will leave the search to the Seven Great Heavenly Samurai and the Guardian Peak Samurai, Lord Setsuna."

The truth is, I want to be on a search mission right now, and I want to be with you and look for Miliu and Erina. We can't rest assured that Miliu and the others will remain unknown. I can't help but bother thinking about them. That's the truth.

But if Faria acts as her instincts go, the order of Lyohan will be disturbed, and the days of tranquillity will disintegrate in no time.

Goddess of War is, after all, the center and backbone of Lyohan.

Faria understood that even though she was a goddess of war, she could not help herself. But that's why I didn't think that Lyohan would be stable without the goddess of war. The goddess of war is a man who cannot live by herself, and with the help of many of them shines as a goddess of war for the first time, but the order of Lyohan has become what it is with the goddess of war.

Everyone leans on and lives on the pillar of the goddess of war.

It can't be anything else.

For example, Malik. The story of making Malik, a real god and Lyohan's patron saint, a new pillar in place of the goddess of war also, he said, temporarily lifted. But Malik himself denied the possibility. God, who knows no horsebone, says he can't paint the goddess of war faith that has been piled up for decades.

That means that the governing mechanism centered on the goddess of war that the Mountain Defense Council has created since independence has functioned perfectly close to each other, sticking to the bone marrow of one of Lyohan's men, to the depths of his soul, and it is a cause of great difficulty to support something in place of the goddess of war.

Except for the story if it takes more than a few decades again, but it's not easy to think things through on a decades-by-decade basis in this world that has been chaotic since ”the Great Destruction”. If Lyohan's order breaks down in the decades that settle the new pillars, and peace is lost, it makes no sense.

That's why we need a goddess of war, and Faria feels trembling at the importance of her existence.

And she knew that it was the trembling thoughts that had to be met, and she understood that meeting her expectations would do Riohan good.

If it had been Faria before, I might not have even tried to understand those thoughts. Chasing the ideal goddess of war. Because I didn't really see around me and didn't even try to see what I really needed to cherish.

Not now, no.

To Faria today, it seemed equally loving to my grandfather, who soothes tea peacefully in front of me, to the Guardian Peak Samurai Corps members who guard the Battle Palace, and to every other person who is visiting the Battle Palace, and I ran out of words to say that every time such a person can pursue his ideals.

One can change.

That has been demonstrated by Faria herself. Faria has been changing. It's changed over and over again. And each time you discover a new self and be surprised. I still am.

I loved one so much, and I understood in surprise whether I would have mercy on one so much.

"You have to trust us all."

"Yeah, sure. And Lord Alexei."

It was Faria's honest feelings and undisputed heart, but Alexei, hearing it, looked like she had been poked in the void.

"... haha, this is... what"

Seeing Alexei's eyes shake, Faria didn't feel like she'd done something unusual.

"I can't help it."

I don't remember seeing it for a long time, such as where Alexei spills tears.

When her grandmother Faria passed away, she would have cried so much that her tears would have dried up, but after Faria returned to Lyohan, she never once showed tears. Sometimes I wouldn't have had time to cry. Even though he says old is old, Alexei is one of Lyohan's central figures, and he had no time to rest his heart. The fact that his granddaughter Faria became a goddess of war is arguably one of the reasons why she didn't give him that kind of time. He was always so worried about Faria that he was rumored to fall one day because of his hard work.

It is Falia who has done all the things that strain his heart, knowing what such a grandfather thinks. That's what she dreamed of going for a goddess of war, so when it comes to having no choice, it's something she can't help. but if Alexei had fallen too much worrying about Faria, then Faria wouldn't have been able to regret it.

I'm so glad Alexei is still magnificent, she can't help but think.

With Alexei here, Faria can finally look back at herself and move towards a new statue of the goddess of war.